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January 30, 2025

Anthony Shannon has joined Perkins Coie as its new chief people officer. Shannon will oversee all of Perkins Coie's human resources operations, including benefits, lateral partner recruiting, lawyer recruiting and retention, staff employment, learning and engagement and employee relations. He joins Perkins Coie from Kobre & Kim, where he had served as the global people officer since 2021 with responsibility for all the firm's talent, training and resource programs. Prior to that role, he served as the director of employee relations and human resources business partners at his prior firm, the interim chief talent officer and assistant chief talent officer and director of labor relations of a Connecticut municipality, and as an employment lawyer at Shipman & Goodwin. Shannon has extensive experience managing legal recruitment and programs in national and international markets. He is a Society for Human Resource Management Senior Certified Professional and received his J.D. from the University of Connecticut and his B.S. from North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University. Headquartered in Seattle, Perkins Coie is a global law firm. Shannon will be based in its Washington, D.C., office.